mtn-living.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 3 days ago • 248 comments

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

submitted 6 days ago • 514 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 6 days ago • 1251 comments

If you thought it wasn’t possible—well, here we are. Musk pulled $80 million in funding authorized by Congress straight from NYC’s bank account. The federal government took the funds and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of others would simply call it stealing.

submitted 8 days ago • 245 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 14 days ago • 3700 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 15 days ago • 1489 comments

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

submitted 20 days ago • 1622 comments

Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has dismissed all members of two of the agency’s most influential science advisory panels, allowing the Trump administration to reshape them.

submitted 25 days ago • 92 comments

How it started. How it’s going.

submitted 29 days ago • 153 comments

"protests don't work" says country with no healthcare, daily gun massacres, degrading infrastructure, massive corruption, and a felon for a president.

submitted 44 days ago • 154 comments

Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!

submitted 47 days ago • 1698 comments

Ann Telnaes, a Washington Post editorial cartoonist who has been with the newspaper for sixteen years, just quit her job after the cartoon below—which depicts Post owner Jeff Bezos and other CEOs bowing to Donald Trump—was spiked. It's another huge blow to the credibility of a once-great newspaper.

submitted 51 days ago • 130 comments

Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies. Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

submitted 67 days ago • 742 comments

NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians. www.nj.com/politics/202...

submitted 75 days ago • 722 comments

I wonder how many watching events in South Korea with horror know that Trump’s original coup plot was exactly what Yoon did (which will now see him charged with Treason in South Korea)—declare martial law purely to accrue more political power. Who stopped Trump? Two men now on Kash Patel’s hit-list.

submitted 82 days ago • 70 comments

Starting a phony transgender bathroom debate and hiding behind the guise of “protecting women” to distract from your attempts to push through the confirmations of alleged rapists, sex traffickers, and fraudsters at the highest levels of government is peak Republican Party.

submitted 94 days ago • 1036 comments

Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon is being sued for allegedly enabling a pedophile to sexually abuse kids. The victims’ lawyers have released video testimonies describing the abuse.

submitted 96 days ago • 615 comments

1.2 Millions Americans died because of his negligence, while he was sending our lifesaving supplies to Putin.

submitted 97 days ago • 2255 comments

Such brazen corruption happening right out in the open. Welcome to the oligarchy.

submitted 98 days ago • 1018 comments

in case you were wondering how things were going over at the other place

submitted 98 days ago • 2555 comments

Imagine if Ukraine had just curled up into a ball when the fascists invaded. Yeah, always defend yourself.

submitted 98 days ago • 33 comments

BARTIROMO: Are you expecting to close down entire agencies? President Trump has talked about the Department of Education, for example RAMASWAMY: We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright.

submitted 98 days ago • 501 comments

Protests can be scary but they don’t have to be. You can turn any situation into a protest or act of rebellion/ discontent. Telling yourself that you can’t act or it doesn’t matter is only doing the legwork for Trump and the international regressive movement. You matter and so does your voice.